Shore protector



F. W. BULTMANN June 2, 1925.

SHORE PROTECTOR Filed June 2, 1924 FIE I FIE E UNITED sTATEs PATENT oFmcE.

FERDINAND WILLIAM BUL'IMANN, OF WAKEN'DA, MISSOURI.

SHORE PROTECTOR.

Application filed June 2, 1924. Serial No. 717,334.

To all whom it may concern: 4 members of the frame at one end portion, Be it known that I, FERDINAND \V. Bonn and straw or other similar packing material MANN, a citizen of the United States, resid- 15 is secured at its other end portion. The

ing at lValrenda, in the county of Carroll whole is encased in wire netting 16, such and State of Missouri, have invented certain as poultry wire, which is arranged around new and useful Improvements in Shore the frame and packing in any convenient Protectors, of which the following is a way. specification. A wire handle 17 is secured to one end of 50 This invention relates to shore protectors the central bar 7 for moving the device from or fascines used on river banks and in con place to place. Crossbars 8 and 9 are arnection with wash-outs; and it consists in ranged at each end of the frame, and as the novel construction and combination of many more as desirable at intermediate the parts hereinafter fully described and points. claimed. These shore protectors are made of any 1 In the drawings, Figure 1 is a side view desirable length and proportions, and their of a shore protector constructed according frames have the advantage of being very to this invention. Fig. 2 is a side view of quickly made from roughlumber, which is the frame of the shore protector, drawn to very readily obtainable. They are very 60 a larger scale. Fig. 3 is a cross-section strong and etficient in use, and do not readily through the frame, taken on the line 3-3 in come apart. The rocks are provided to Fig. 2. I hold the devices in position.

A central longitudinal bar 7 is provided, What I claim is: and 6 are four longitudinal bars spaced 1. A shore protector or fascine, compris- 65 apart from the bar 7 and arranged around ing a frame having a central longitudinal it. Crossbars 8 and 9 arranged in pairs bar, outer longitudinal bars spaced apart are provided. The two crossbars of each from the central bar and arranged around pair are arranged parallel to each other, t, and Crossbars arranged in pairs Which and they straddle the central bar 7 and two are secured crosswise of each other, the bars 70 of the longitudinal bars 6. The crossbars 8 of each pair being arranged to straddle the no of one pair are arranged crosswise of the central bar and two of the outer bars, and crossbars 9 of another pair and are secured packing material arranged in the frame to them as shown. around the central bar.

All the bars are secured together by nails ShOre protector or fascine as set 7 or other convenient fastening devices, and forth 111 01211110 and h ving Wlre stays stays 12 of wire. The stay wires extend be- Wound around h d P O IS 0f the Cr0 sS tween the end portions of the bars around bars l Q g between them, and wll'e the device, and are twisted around the bars netting lncloslng fi frame a d packing at their junctions, so as to hold all parts ll'laielltll and holding the packlng material so of the frame securely astened together. 1T1 place- 40 Any sort of packing material is arranged testlmony whereof I have affixed y in the frame around the central bar. Rocks slgnature- 14. are preferably arranged between the FERDINAND W LLI M BULTMANN. 

